When Grief Comes Home

About When Grief Comes Home

When Grief Comes Home is a podcast that supports parents who are grieving while raising children living through the loss of a parent or sibling. From how to talk to your child about the death to healing practices for resiliency, this podcast addresses challenges parents face after a significant death and ways to process, honor, and integrate the loss over time. Listeners will feel understood and better equipped to process and express their own grief as they support their child. The When Grief Comes Home podcast goes along with the book of the same name. The book can be ordered at https://www.amazon.com/When-Grief-Comes-Home-Supporting/dp/1540904717 (https://www.amazon.com/When-Grief-Comes-Home-Supporting/dp/1540904717)

Publisher

Erin Leigh Nelson, Colleen Montague LMFT, and Brad Quillen

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Sept 2024

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

5 of 42 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   After the Goodbye: Practical Steps for Families

   Host [Host Name] guides grieving parents through practical steps for navigating the immediate aftermath of a death, offering a gentle checklist for family support.

2. 

   1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Secondary Losses

   Hosts Brad, Erin, and Colleen explore the profound impact of secondary losses, revealing how life's milestones can resurface grief years after a primary loss.

3. 

   26 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   How To Support Your Child Through Grief

   Dr. Pamela Gabbay, author of Understanding and Supporting Bereaved Children, shares practical guidance with host [Host Name] on how to effectively support children and teens through grief.

Inside a recent episode

Secondary Losses

Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so even as these babies come and I'm just so aware, like, that should have been our life. Yeah. point about it goes on because, Colleen, in the book, you talk about this idea of ripples and that there's these ripple effects with secondary losses and the imagery of skipping a rock or the ka-plump of a rock into the lake or whatever. There's the ripple effects that go out and go out and go out. And not to say it goes away after a decade or two decades or five decades, but it's different too years and years out. Yeah, think about that moment when a stone hits the water. That's your primary loss, you know, the death itself. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

6,953

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

35 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

71

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

51

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